Places PauI Wants to Go

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.

The stunningly blue waters of these beautiful caves also have a violent past.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

This gravestone and its inscription inspired a movement that has spanned generations and saved countless lives.

This temple contains what might be the world's oldest optical illusion.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A reproduction of a mysteriously preserved body found in the 18th-century and put on display for years before burial.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

A story of cutlasses carelessly carving a celibate centenarian's cemetery stone.

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.